Small generating sets for the Torelli group

DOI10.2140/GT.2012.16.111MaRDI QIDQ422816zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andrew Putman

Publication date 18 May 2012

Published in Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.3294

zbMATH Keywords

mapping class groupTorelli group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Other groups related to topology or analysis (20F38)

Abstract: Proving a conjecture of Dennis Johnson, we show that the Torelli subgroup of the mapping class group has a finite generating set whose size grows cubically with respect to the genus of the surface. Our main tool is a new space called the handle graph on which the Torelli group acts cocompactly.

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